Linkaround 1-7-2009

Opaqueness, not transparency:

Ace of Spades: Oh My: Geithner Told AIG to Lie to Public About "Backdoor Bailout" of Big Banks and Investment Houses Through AIG
Big Government: ObamaCare: A New Era of (Non) Transparency
HotAir: Video: Kline on the new “transparency” in Congress

Obama:

Ace of Spades (Drew M): Remember When Obama Said He Wouldn't Raise Taxes On Those Making Less Than $250K? Let Me Be Perfectly Clear, He Lied
discrmininations: A Lincolnian Speech For Obama
Don Surber: Capito: Obama’s policies hurt women
The Other McCain: What’s Another Harmless Lie Between Friends?
Gateway Pundit: Pro-Abortion Language Will Be Included in Final Nationalized Health Care Bill. LIAR!
HotAir: Press corps grills Gibbs: Um, didn’t Obama totally shamelessly lie about C-SPAN?
A Conservative Teacher:  Obama is Not a Rorschach Test- He is a Liberal
HotAirPundit: Rick Santorum on Greta: Obama Hasn't Delivered On Anything

Orszag - MIA dad:

American Power: Fire Peter Orszag! " During campaign 2008, Barack Obama made a major Father's Day speech, arguing that "too many fathers are MIA." " Another broken campaign promise?
The Other McCain: Orzag’s Bastard. The headline with the subtlety of a brick.

War on terror:

Big Government: More Christmas Bombing Fallout: Hillary’s Visa Problem
Gateway Pundit: Wife of CIA Suicide Bomber Proud of His Murder
HotAir: WH: Hey, we inherited this terrorist recidivism. Dude - it's like a year later!
HotAir: 9/11 Commission chair: Obama, DHS, DNI too complacent on nat’l security. Duh!
HotAirPundit: CIA Using Sophisticated Spy Satellites To Study Global Warming. Osama Bin Laden has to be laughing his butt off at this news:

Gorebal warming:

American Thinker: Letter from 141 scientists to UN Sec Gen Ban states skeptics case
Hall of Record:  Blame It On Global Warming
American Thinker:  Climategate and the Migrating Arctic Tree Line
Gateway Pundit: Midwest Suffers Through Global Warming
Freezing Temps, Snow & Ice Storms. This global warming thing is a lot colder than I thought!

Media matters:

Adrienne's Catholic Corner: Andrew Breitbart launches Big Journalism
Big Government: Matthews: All ‘Teabaggers’ White? Maybe Not…
The Other McCain: ‘We Were Very Lucky’
Dewey from Detroit:  Old Media, Meet New Media…

Miscellaneous:

Jill Staneck: Planned Parenthood board member portrays Mary in Nativity scene. These people are truly sick.
American Power: Governor Schwarzenegger: State of the State Address, 2010
American Thinker:  Getting Control of Congress, Permanently. "We are now experiencing a disconnect between national political leaders and the citizenry. Congress is out of control and needs adult supervision. Here's how to give it to them."
The Rhetorican: Sci-Fi Lawsuit of the Week. "Lawyers for Phillip K. Dick’s estate – he of Blade Runner fame – sue Google for naming the Google-phone Nexus One. But their arguments are far from iron-clad…"
Big Government: 21.1 Million Reasons Big Labor Pours Money into ObamaCare. "The bosses of Service Employee International Union (SEIU) and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Union (AFSCME), Andy Stern and Gerald McEntee, know that ObamaCare will hurt the very workers that they claim to represent." ObamaCare isn't about healthcare, it's about control.
Doug Ross: A Public Service Message From Governor Jerkinator
John Hawkins:  The Problem With The "Educated Class" In America. Might want to make that plural.
Doug Ross: Undermining the Electoral Process, Chapter 8,622 : 9th Circuit Rules Voting Ban for Felons Racially Biased. Another one of the Democrats favored future voting blocks - the felon vote, which gets tacked on to their other darlings: pets, ineligible children, dead people and illegal aliens.
HotAir: Social Security deficit slides to worst showing in a generation. Change!
The Rhetorican: That Means You, Megan Fox!

Just for laughs:

Guyism: And this is why we don’t put our genitals into a pipe
Jill Stanek: Lunch Break: Woman throws temper tantrum (and everything else) at McDonalds

John Hawkins: The Top 20 Liberal Pick-Up Lines
Guyism: 20 things that would happen if marijuana were legalized tomorrow 
Viral footage: Cool paper Parkour animation 

John Hawkins: The Top 10 Tea Party Pick-Up Lines
Guyism: Two teenage girls are Cincinnati’s most wanted bank robbers 
uncoached: A Collection of Ten Oddly Painted Homes

uncoached: Deleted Scenes from Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. "This is by far the best video I’ve seen in a very long time. As if this movie weren’t bad enough I cannot believe there were deleted scenes that are actually worse than the real movie scenes."